Worship Proliferation

(Psa 26:8 KJV)  LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

(Proverbs 26 also read)

Originally, in scripture you have the Garden of Eden identified as the place where God met humanity.  After the expulsion, there was more evidence of meeting God wherever you were.  Then we come to the law, and the tabernacle and later of the temple.  During these time periods, the emphasis on meeting God was in coming to the place where the Ark of the Covenant resided.  I think that is what David has in mind as he is sharing here.  As I was looking into the different temples, one of the commentators said that the only temple that does not have a statement about the glory of God filling it was the one built by Nehemiah and Ezra.  That doesn’t mean God wasn’t there, but the others have a specific reference to God‘s glory.

Since I was meeting God in my bedroom, Israel is the other side of the world and there is no temple, my mind started wondering why I can meet with God here?  And my mind went back to where Jesus said that He had to leave so that the Holy Spirit could come to us and how on Pentecost He came in power.

So?  We can meet with God just about anywhere.  His glory in a sense now resides in us and not a building.  Rejoice and worship.